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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

 If pieces of technology were developed to augment sight, strength, speed, lifespan, and the such, would you utilize them, and, if so, to what degree?  By augments, I am referring to stuff such as the mechanical augmentations as seen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, or biological augmentations such as Meld from Enemy Within or adding in additional organs that may or may not naturally occur within the body, or within nature in general.

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If a method was invented that could allow for the uploading of your consciousness to a digital format and had been proven to work, but the process would result in the destruction of the organic brain as a consequence of getting all the required information, at what point, if ever would you take advantage of this technology? 

[MarcAFK]

Sure I would, I would then get a copy uploaded into a new organic brain, while the digital version gets uploaded to play minecraft forever (sucker)

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Sure I would, I would then get a copy uploaded into a new organic brain, while the digital version gets uploaded to play minecraft forever (sucker)

Let's assume the process is single-directional.  There might be a portable unit device that you could have yourself uploaded into which could allow control of a body (artificial or, potentially, biological with exception to the brain unit), but you cannot return to a biological brain.  One other thing as well, even a digital copy of yourself should be assumed to take an extremely long period of time to gain as space will be needed for the newly uploaded.

[Levi]

I'd do it right away.  Digital is a much better way to preserve my brain, because then I can make copies. 

I mean, you'd hate to leave it for a while and then accidentally have your head eaten by a bear or something.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Look at the h+ in my sig. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

[XXXXYYYY]

Provided I can afford a good quality, physically tough, and malware-safe casing/computer/whathaveyou? Sure. I'm not really attached to this weird blobby flesh-sac anyway.
Plus, I could make backups of myself. And maybe talk to myself from an hour ago or just watch the years pass by. It'd be interesting.

Semi-unrelated side note, I've always kinda wanted to have a virtual farm, of sorts. Just watching different NNs compete and grow and change to adapt to their environment. Kinda like people-watching, but more... whole, in a way. Just watch something grow and develop. Just reminded me because it's something that actually could happen if this (the whole brain-uploady-thingy) came to occur.

[Sirus]

I'd take advantage of such technology as soon as I could afford it, provided that I didn't lose all ability to interact with the physical world. If I just became a digital ghost lost in a computer system forever I would probably pass.

[Vattic]

It really depends on what kind of existence the digitised would have. There is lots to like about being biological so being digital would have to offer more than longevity to tempt.

[Loud Whispers]

I wouldn't do it; not worth it to lose all interaction with the physical world

[Cthulhu]

You guys are all aware that this would kill you, right?  Your "consciousness" is an emergent property of the physical and chemical organization of your neurons, it's probably possible to replicate this organization digitally but there's no reason to think that doing so would transfer whatever you think "you" are over.

[Loud Whispers]

You guys are all aware that this would kill you, right?  Your "consciousness" is an emergent property of the physical and chemical organization of your neurons, it's probably possible to replicate this organization digitally but there's no reason to think that doing so would transfer whatever you think "you" are over.

So a bit like reincarnation then

[Sirus]

You guys are all aware that this would kill you, right?  Your "consciousness" is an emergent property of the physical and chemical organization of your neurons, it's probably possible to replicate this organization digitally but there's no reason to think that doing so would transfer whatever you think "you" are over.

Considering that the OP includes statements like "uploading of your consciousness" and "proven to work", I think we can safely ignore that little obstacle. Especially since this is all hypothetical unless Zan is about to unveil some sort of secret project.

[NullForceOmega]

Nope.  Absolutely not.

[Strife26]

Possibly, it'd certainly depend a lot on all the variables that other people have mentioned.


I would not be morally opposed to it, certainly. Make me into a super-tank and make other people do the pmcs on it, heck yeah.

[Criptfeind]

As people said, it would depend on the type of life that digitized people have. And I don't think I'd want to be an early adopter... Well, I wouldn't turn it down if asked I guess.

I mean, to me honestly the question of "Is it me" Is pretty meaningless. I already ignore so many questions like that for the sake of sanity anyway, one more isn't going to hurt.